Analysis of My Frost-King - Song I



We are sending you, dear flowers
Forth alone to die,
Where your gentle sisters may not weep
O'er the cold graves where you lie;
But you go to bring them fadeless life
In the bright homes where they dwell,
And you softly smile that't is so,
As we sadly sing farewell.
O plead with gentle words for us,
And whisper tenderly
Of generous love to that cold heart,
And it will answer ye;
And though you fade in a dreary home,
Yet loving hearts will tell
Of the joy and peace that you have given:
Flowers, dear flowers, farewell!


Scheme ABCBDEFEGHIHJEKE
Poetic Form
Metre 11101110 10111 111010111 10011111 11111111 0011111 011011111 111011 11110111 010100 110011111 011101 011100101 110111 1010111110 101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 516
Words 101
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 408
Words per stanza (avg) 99
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. more…

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